Bug #54048 MEM manual recommends incorrect LDAP settings for Active Directory usage

• Submitted: 27 May 2010 23:35
• Modified: 2 Jun 2010 7:48
• Reporter: Jonathon Coombes
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Documentation
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 2.2
• OS: Any
• Assigned to: MC Brown
• CPU Architecture: Any
• Tags: documentation, LDAP, manual, mem, Merlin, UI

[27 May 2010 23:35] Jonathon Coombes

Description:
The manual currently states for the Referral LDAP setting:

"Authentication should follow any referrals provided by the server. The default is to use whatever the LDAP directory server is configured to do. If you are using Microsoft Windows Active Directory, you must set this option to Ignore." 

Testing, external sources and the Tomcat documentation all support that for Active Directory the setting should be Follow. Here is what the Tomcat documentation says at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/catalina/docs/api/org/apache/catalina/realm/JNDIRe...

How should we handle referrals? Microsoft Active Directory can't handle the default case, so an application authenticating against AD must set referrals to "follow". 

How to repeat:
N/A

Suggested fix:
Change to reflect recommendations

[2 Jun 2010 7:48] MC Brown

Documentation has been updated.